Mr. President, Don’t Mock the Dead; You make it harder to defend you in other things

The Free Press  "Americans have become inured to Trump’s social media taunts. Yet he still finds ways to shock us on occasion."

"Trump almost certainly won’t walk it back, and the usual suspects will find some rhetorical contortions with which to defend this outburst. But there is no point in anyone defending this. It should be widely opposed—particularly by those who otherwise support him." 

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"Even Rob Reiner’s contributions to American culture—from his days as a sitcom star on All in the Family to his direction of iconic films such as When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men—it was entirely appropriate for the president of the United States to weigh in on his horrifying death over the weekend.

"Sadly, the way President Donald Trump has done so is beyond the pale. His Monday post on Truth Social is worth reading in full, in part because many Republican lawmakers will spend the next few days claiming not to have seen it.

"This is what we know. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found stabbed to death on Sunday. Their troubled son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, has been arrested for their murder. There is no evidence that the slaying had anything to do with Trump. But the president has a penchant for making everything about himself, and so he has here, casting their deaths as somehow the result of their opposition to him and his politics.

"We’re living through an era of political violence, something we take very seriously. We’ve published numerous essays on how Americans can and must come together and solve our differences the way they are meant to be solved: civil debate, the democratic process, a respectful airing of differences. Those values are at the heart of everything we do. ' . . .

It’s Time for Ilhan Omar to “Face the Music”

 

Broc Smith

It’s Time for Ilhan Omar to “Face the Music”  "Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar has always been a controversial figure in the House of Representatives. Now that her involvement with a massive scam regarding non-profit organizations in the state of Minnesota has come out, perhaps it’s time we take a look back at her personal behavior.

"On August 12, 2016, powerlineblog.com posted the following…

"  'A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information last week suggesting Omar’s involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. Hirsi is the father of Omar’s three children. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar’s campaign website here.

"The post further notes that Omar married her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, implying that the latter marriage assisted his entry into the United States. Her brother was a British citizen. “As soon as Ilhan Omar married him,” the post continues, “he started university at her [a]lma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. He then returned to the United Kingdom where he now lives.”

"So, she was legally married AND married her brother while married to Hirsi, finally legally divorcing her brother in 2017.

"But wait… there’s more…

. . . "It was President Teddy Roosevelt who said, and I paraphrase, There is no such thing as a half American. You cannot hold loyalties to two countries at the same time. If you don’t swear allegiance to America, then you don’t need to be here.

Representative Omar needs to face punishment for her actions involving the Minnesota scam. In fact, every representative or senator who has been involved in the illegal activities needs to be called out and punished for them. The two-tier justice system, which has spread throughout the country like a cancer, must be rectified so that we may truly be a country that can probably proclaim “justice for all”.

Until He Comes, KJ

Did Iran Orchestrate the Hannukah Murder of Jews at Bondi Beach?

 The American Spectator  

"But even more disturbing than Iran’s potential involvement in the recent attack, is that the Australian authorities failed to prevent such a mega attack."

A Hanukkah menorah is projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on Dec. 15, 2025. A father and son opened fire on a Jewish festival at Australia's Bondi Beach in a shooting spree that killed 15 people, including a child, authorities said on December 15, denouncing the attack as antisemitic "terrorism."   USA Today

"As of this writing, at least two terrorist shooters have murdered 15 people at a Hannukah celebration in Bondi Beach, including Chabad Rabbi Eli Schlanger who was Chabad’s emissary in Sydney since 2008, and Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, who was able to shield his wife and save her from death. Arsen Ostrovsky, a human rights lawyer and popular figure on social media who was a refusnik who fled the Soviet Union with his family to Australia in 1987, and then moved to Israel, was also wounded in the attack. The Hannukah celebration was reportedly attended by approximately 2,000 people.

In a sliver of good news, Ahmed al-Ahmad, a 43-year old Muslim fruit shop owner, succeeded in tackling and disarming one of the shooters, avoiding further loss of life. Such heroism resulted in praise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated: “We saw an action of a brave man — turns out a Muslim brave man, and I salute him — that stopped one of these terrorists from killing innocent Jews.”

"One of the gunmen has been identified as Naveed Akram from Pakistan. Mike Burgess, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), stated that “One of these individuals was known to us, but not in an immediate-threat perspective, so we need to look into what happened here.”

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"In the wake of that statement, one can’t help asking if Iran has its hands in this attack. Indeed, there are reports that Australia is investigating if this is the case. Additionally, an unnamed senior Israeli security official told Israeli press outlet Israel Hayom that “in recent months there has been increased activity by Iran to orchestrate attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets around the world,” adding: “There is no doubt that the direction and infrastructure for the attack originated in Tehran.”

"Such an attack on the “soft targets” of Jewish religious and civil life would not be out of Iran’s wheelhouse. Australia assessed that Iran has orchestrated other recent attacks on Jews in Australia. This August, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated that “The Iranian government directed at least two of these attacks. Iran has sought to disguise its involvement but ASIO [the Australian Security Intelligence Organization] assesses it was behind the attacks.” Specifically, the ASIO had established links between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and “cut-outs, including people who are criminals and members of organised [sic] crime gangs to do their bidding or direct their [IRGC’s] bidding,” according to ASIO’s chief Burgess. Albanese confirmed this assessment in that authorities were: “able to trace the chain of command, if you like, right back to the IRGC.' ” . . .

What we know about the victims in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack | CBC News  

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American Families Pay The Price For Excessive Litigation

Issues & Insights

   "Such is the case with another TPLF bill, Litigation Transparency Act, sponsored by California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. Ensuring this bill is ready for passage would underscore Congress’s commitment to addressing the issue."  

"Over the last five years, inflation has crushed American families. Despite great progress over the past year thanks to President Donald Trump, many household budgets are still stretched too thin. To make things even worse, the American economy is losing hundreds of billions each year due to out-of-control tort litigation. To address America’s affordability crisis, legislators, regulators, and courts can and must curb the expansion of costly, profit-driven lawsuits. 

"For years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform has been sounding the alarm on the costs of such lawsuits. The total cost of the abuse amounted to $529 billion in 2022, equal to about 2% of America’s entire economic output. For businesses, tort costs are increasing by an average of 8.7% a year.  

"These litigation-related costs currently equate to $4,207 per American family each year, with households in some states paying far more. Californians are hit with an annual “tort tax” of $5,429 and New Yorkers face a tort burden of more than $7,000 each year. This increasingly high economic cost can be seen in rising prices, fewer jobs, and lost innovation and product choices.  

"Out-of-control tort litigation makes American businesses less competitive, decreases worker productivity, and discourages companies from investing in their operations – instead having to hold money back for the potential of a rent-seeking lawsuit. 

"However, some states are demonstrating that it’s possible to greatly reduce excessive tort costs. West Virginia legislators passed reforms that introduced more transparency in predatory third-party litigation financing (TPLF). The measure also addressed the consequences of misleading legal advertising. These and other reforms resulted in a 20% reduction in West Virginia tort costs from 2016 to 2022, giving the state the lowest per-household cost in the nation – at about half the national average." . . .  

No, nobody on the right is celebrating the murder of director Rob Reiner. (Please let this be so. TD)

 Monica Showalter

  "Nearly all conservatives are just as shocked and saddened as everyone else. Conservatives never wanted him dead, some just wanted him to shut up. That's far from dancing with glee and singing with joy as some (and not all) on the left did on the death of Charlie Kirk."

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It's hard to prove a negative, but I didn't see anyone on the right celebrating the tragic murder of lefty Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, reportedly at the hands of their second son, Nick, in a domestic dispute, stabbed after an argument. The New York Post reports that the son is "in custody."

" 'Sure, Reiner was a lefty. But people are more than just their politics. And a guy who focuses his entire life on making movies might not be a very deep thinker on politics anyway, even if he was vociferous.

" 'My immediate response upon hearing the news was one of sadness and sorrow. Such an amazing talent -- The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally -- such misguided politics, but a nice guy all the same, meeting a an ending no one deserves. 

" 'And no more good movies for us from him, either.

" 'All I could think was that despite living a glittering life as a prince of Hollywood, renown for his excellent movies, there must have been a lot of suffering in Reiner's home, having a son, Nick, who was made addicted to drugs by some evil person at the age of 15, and Reiner paying for 17 trips to rehab for him by the time he was 19. Drug addiction is hell on whole families, not just the addict, it can happen to good families, too, while the failure of rehab to cure it is pretty common. He must have loved that son.

" 'So there's a certain amount of nonsense out there on the left, claiming that conservatives are celebrating the death of Reiner in these circumstances the same way a certain segment of the left (and it wasn't Reiner) celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk." . . .

One of Reiner's most famous scenes

Rob Reiner's words on Charlie Kirk murder echo sadly after director's death

. . . “ 'Absolute horror and I unfortunately saw the video of it,” Reiner replied. “It’s beyond belief what happened to him. That should never happen to anybody. I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable. That’s not a solution so solving problems.”

“ 'And I felt like what his wife [Erika] said at the service at the memorial they had, was exactly right,” he continued. “I’m Jewish but I believe in the teachings of Jesus and I believe in ‘do unto others’ and I believe in forgiveness and what she said to me was beautiful. She forgave his assassin. And I think that is admirable.' ” . . .  

Far more than one would expect from a 2025 Democrat. Thank you, sir. TD

Rob Reiner and Wife Had Throats Slit By Family Member, Report Says  

"A source also told TMZ that the daughter (Reiner has another daughter from his marriage to the late Penny Marshall) who found the slain Reiners told police to focus on a family member who “should be a suspect” because this person is “dangerous.' ”

Mayor Frey wolfs down ‘Somali slop’ to spite Trump but the look on his face is worth 1000 words

Democrats hold allegiance to political power at the expense of America and her heritage, history, and traditions, all of which bind us as a nation and allow us to heal from our wounds. Wounds caused by mistakes of the past. Leftists - politicians, professors, celebrities, all consider it their need to daily scrape the scabs off wounds we all hope to heal. TD

BPR   "Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has set new standards when it comes to pandering to the Somali demographic, and a video of him chowing down on a plate of the African nation’s traditional fare has gone viral on social media.

"The far-left Democrat has taken great issue with President Donald J. Trump’s recent criticism of his city’s Somali community and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as “garbage,” and he apparently thought that devouring the foreign grub was a way to spite the leader of the free world. And maybe it would have been if his facial expression didn’t look like he was wolfing down something that dripped out of a dumpster.

"In the short video that blew up X on Friday, the wimpy mayor is seen sitting at a table in a local restaurant and stuffing his face with the concoction, which greatly pleased his fellow diners while Somali music plays, and Frey has the appearance of a man battling the urge to throw up." . . .

Minneapolis mayor draws fire for Somali victory speech after third-term win | Fox News 

. . . "He then proceeded to list a number of Somalian regions, saying, "Whether you are from Bosaso or Mogadishu, whether you are from Hargeisa or Garowe, whether you are from Beledweyne or southwest, Minneapolis is a place where you come to seek prosperity, where you come to raise your family."

"Here is what this election means. This election means this is a moment for unity, where the entire Somali community can come together and say, ‘This is our people. This is our city. We are united behind each other," he said."

. . . "Having entered office in 2018, Frey was elected to his third term as Minneapolis mayor on Tuesday. He is best known for marching with protesters during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which were particularly destructive in Minneapolis, the city where George Floyd died. Frey was also seen kneeling and weeping by Floyd’s casket at a memorial service."

Douglas Murray Drops Shocking FINDINGS on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar "Nobody beats Douglas Murray in a honest and factual debate."